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Earth Sciences

Oceans Uncover Climate Change Impacts on Carbon Dioxide

“The oceans are a sink for the carbon dioxide that is released into the atmosphere,” says McClintock, who has spent more than two decades researching the…

Life & Chemistry

Water Movements Influence Fish Evolution, Study Reveals

Catch a glimpse of a fish's body shape, and you can often guess how speedy it is. Tuna and mackerel look as if they should outpace frilly reef fish and eels….

Agricultural & Forestry Science

U of I Faculty Assess US Food Security Program Effectiveness

The study is completed every four years by nearly 200 food banks and analyzes the effectiveness of emergency food distribution throughout the United States….

Studies and Analyses

Illinois Job Slump: Economist Calls for More Research

Though lawmakers tout sweeping job-creation initiatives such as a statewide road and building program, Geoffrey J.D. Hewings predicts little relief until…

Life & Chemistry

Ancient Remains Support Barker Hypothesis on Tooth Enamel

“Prehistoric remains are providing strong, physical evidence that people who acquired tooth enamel defects while in the womb or early childhood tended to die…

Environmental Conservation

Guppies Reveal How Evolution Shapes Ecology Dynamics

While it is clear to ecologists that an ecosystem shapes the evolution of animals living in it, population biology experts such as Joseph Travis of The Florida…

Life & Chemistry

"Zen" Bats Hit Their Target by Not Aiming at It!

The new findings by researchers from Maryland and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel suggest that this strategy optimizes the bats' ability to…

Physics & Astronomy

NIST's second 'quantum logic clock' based on aluminum ion is now world's most precise clock

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built an enhanced version of an experimental atomic clock based on a single…

Automotive Engineering

New ORNL System Boosts Power for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have designed, fabricated and demonstrated a PHEV traction drive power electronics…

Business and Finance

Top 20 Global Competition Economics Firms Revealed

This annual survey of the world's top competition economics practices uses such criteria as quality of economists and recent successes and lists the top 20 in…

Earth Sciences

AGORA 2.0: 2 Million Euros Boost for Baltic Sea Tourism

The project was approved in the second call of the Baltic Sea Region Programme 2007- 2013 (follow-up of the former INTERREG III B Programme). It aims at…

Physics & Astronomy

Rice physicists kill cancer with 'nanobubbles'

Using lasers and nanoparticles, scientists at Rice University have discovered a new technique for singling out individual diseased cells and destroying them…

Studies and Analyses

New Study Identifies Source of Type 1 Diabetes Beta Cell Loss

Doctors at Eastern Virginia Medical School's Strelitz Diabetes Center have been stalking the culprit responsible for Type 1 diabetes. Now, they are one step…

Earth Sciences

Cyclone Oli Becomes Category 4: Insights from TRMM Satellite

The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission or TRMM satellite is like a rain gauge in space. It's managed by NASA and the Japanese Space Agency, and can measure…

Health & Medicine

Panel Urges Action to Increase Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates

Despite evidence and guidelines supporting the value of screening for this disease, rates of screening for colorectal cancer are consistently lower than those…

Studies and Analyses

Moms' depression in pregnancy tied to antisocial behavior in teens

That's the conclusion of a new longitudinal study conducted by researchers at Cardiff University, King's College London, and the University of Bristol. The…

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